iPhone flaw could expose your text messages to others

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There’s a flaw in the way the iPhone (with the latest firmware, mind you) handles supposedly secure text messages. Here, a secure text message is one that says something along the lines of, “You have a new text message” when it initially flashes across the screen. Insecure text messages are, “Hey, dude, are we still going to get smashed later tonight?” (Yes.)

When the iPhone is in emergency call mode, any and all text messages flash across the screen plain as day. So if you’re trying to prevent, say, your siblings or foils from reading your text messages, all they’d have to do is put the phone in emergency call mode.

I hesitate to call this a full blown security flaw because, come on, it’s not. The “attacker” still needs physical access to your phone in order to put in it emergency call mode. If you can’t physically secure your iPhone then you might as well consider the whole thing wide open.

DescriptionApple's iPhone was introduced at MacWorld in January 2007 and officially went on sale June 29, 2007, selling 146,000 units within the first weekend of launch. The phone has been hailed as revolutionary with its bundle of advanced mobile web browsing, music and video playback, and touch screen controls. The iPhone is exclusively carried on the networks of both AT&T and Verizon in the U.S.
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